Max Baer Jr. cuenta su experiencia de audicionar
para Los Beverly Ricos, el trato con su padre boxeador y sus consejos. Para
saber: Buddy Ebsen (protagonista también en Barnaby Jones) y en vocabulario: took
off, doltish, queasy
He remained
close friends with Buddy Ebsen until
Ebsen's death from pneumonia…
Baer
is the only surviving regular cast member of The Beverly Hillbillies…
Max Baer Jr.was born Maximilian
Adalbert Baer Jr. in Oakland,
California, in 1937.
He attended Christian Brothers High School in Sacramento.
Baer's first acting role was in Goldilocks
and the Three Bears at the Blackpool
Pavilion in England in 1949. He
began acting professionally in 1960 at Warner
Bros., where he made appearances on television programs such as Maverick, Surfside 6, Hawaiian Eye,
Cheyenne, The Roaring 20s, and 77
Sunset Strip. His career took off
two years later, when he joined the cast of The
Beverly Hillbillies.
In 1962, Baer was cast in the role of the doltish Jethro Bodine, Jed Clampett's
nephew.
He continued to
take other parts during the nine-year run of The Beverly Hillbilles and appeared on the television programs Vacation Playhouse and Love, American Style, as well as in the
western A Time for Killing.
